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Collection of autographs and manuscripts of the Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1813-1877.

BIB_ID
345345
Accession number
MA 367.1-182
Display Date
1813-1877.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 v. (182 items), bound : ill. (ports.) ; 40.8 cm
Notes
Volume 4 (MA 367) of a 12-volume collection (MA 364-375) of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church. The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
A collection of autographs and manuscripts of William H. DeLancey, George Washington Doane, Christopher Edwards Gadsden, Jackson Kemper, Samuel A. McCoskry, Charles Pettit McIlvaine, James Hervey Otey, Leonidas Polk, and William Rollinson Whittingham. Also includes two letters written by George Burgess with postscripts by McIlvaine (MA 367.23 and MA 367.30). Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records (MA 367.1-182).